The event, supported by the Esposende Municipality, was all about the sketchbook – this magical object that artists, illustrators, architects, social scientists and many others use regularly. Some use it for practice, others as a study journal or as a final piece of art, some may use it instead of a confession booth or therapist’s couch, some even use it merely out of comfort and habit.

Regardless of individual perspectives on it, the sketchbook is a fundamental object for many people, and serious research studies about it are scarce. Tiago strives to turn it into a valuable object of research, and Nós e os Cadernos is the annual manifestation of that effort. The talks of the speakers during the event were just now published in ebook which can be downloaded here for free (Portuguese only).

Action-to-action transition and aspect-to-aspect transition, according to Scott McCloud (1993)

Author: Pedro Loureiro

I was born on the southwestern-most tip of Europe, in Lagos, Portugal. A childhood of legos and sandcastles led me to architecture school, but an adolescence of doodling drove me to sketching and later to illustration. I like to sketch, to travel and to chop vegetables into tiny manageable bits.
I also like maps. The older the better!
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